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By Lucy Adams & Hayley Jarvis BBC Scotland News Hundreds of high-achieving pupils are struggling to access university in Scotland because the rules say they have not been in the UK long enough. Lawyers are taking the Scottish government to court over the case of one straight-A pupil who has lived in the country for

By Lucy Williamson BBC News, in Albania and France The BBC has heard evidence that Albanian drug gangs are using the migrant camps of northern France as a recruitment ground, offering to pay the passage of those prepared to work in the UK drugs industry on arrival. Albanians account for around a third of the

The numbers of people crossing the English Channel are now at unprecedented levels By Dominic Casciani Home and legal correspondent @BBCDomC Four years and four Secretaries of State ago, the Home Office made a pretty small technical change to how its staff should process asylum claims. Like a Whitehall case study in chaos theory, that

By Charley Adams The government remains committed to sending asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda and plans for future flights have begun, Priti Patel has told MPs. “We will not be deterred from doing the right thing,” the home secretary said. The first flight was cancelled minutes before take-off after an intervention by the European Court

Graduates from the world’s top universities will be able to apply to come to the UK under a new visa scheme. The government says the “high-potential individual” route will attract the “brightest and best” early in their careers. The scheme will be available to alumni of the top non-UK universities who have graduated in the

Apply if you’re living outside the UK with a British citizen You can apply for an EU Settlement Scheme family permit to come to the UK with an eligible family member if both of the following apply: This is also known as a ‘Surinder Singh’ application. If your relationship with the eligible family member started